
Lisa Mo Wagner
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Hamburg, Germany
Toptal member since February 10, 2021
Lisa is a product person with a strong focus on inclusive and empowering product management. She believes the most effective product leaders excel at strategic skills like empathy, listening, and facilitation. Lisa's experience spans varying business sizes in Europe and North America. She has successfully built simple solutions for complex B2B problems, like an eCommerce flow for an order matrix with multiple variables or a machine learning-enabled liquidity management tool.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Coaching
- Facilitation
- Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
- Product Discovery
- Product Strategy
- Prototyping
- Team Building
- User Research
Work Experience
Product Coach
Codecentric
- Built a learning platform MVP for an online learning platform within four months to bring German engineering education to India using cutting-edge technology and integrate AR/VR.
- Implemented all data infrastructure for a very large streaming platform as a highly technical interim PO.
- Trained and coached new Product Owners within their company context.
- Coached a whole product organization of a Cloud Service Provider as part of a coaching team, together with Agile and tech coaches.
Product Coach | Consultant
Freelance
- Coached product managers, senior product managers, and product leaders in one-on-one sessions.
- Supported a small agency in running workshops, helping them create a clear product vision for themselves. Coached the CEO, COO, and a product marketing manager on team building and strategy.
- Coached a freelancer from a side-hustle to a sustainable part-time business in three months and gave her the tools to continue her growth.
- Facilitated a co-creation workshop with Süddeutsche Verlag, a large publishing house, and MAGAZIN, a furniture design company. Together they created a line of furniture sold in the Süddeutsche online shop.
- Supported Innogy in creating an in-house agency for their digital needs through workshop facilitation and process design.
Head of Consumer and Apps
moebel.de
- Worked with senior management to plan the quarters based on outcome goals, not feature lists, and create a comprehensible roadmap.
- Implemented career development plans for product managers, designers, and engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, feedback, retros, team building workshops, and active coaching.
- Improved site performance significantly; its Lighthouse score increased from six to 65 within two months.
Senior Product Manager
Finiata
- Launched an MVP version of a data science-based liquidity management tool in only five months.
- Accomplished an adoption rate of 25% since the launch of the new product. The product was rolled out to our existing customers.
- Managed to accomplish user growth of 200% over six months by improving the user experience of the new product and replacing parts of the MVP with more user-friendly solutions based on our analytics.
- Doubled the number of monthly active users (MAU) within six months through close collaboration with marketing, smart in-app CTA placement, and constant improvements to the platform.
Senior Product Owner
Telus Communications, Inc.
- Tripled the qualified leads and lowered the bounce rate from 87% to 12.4% by redesigning a bundled offering for one of the top three telecom operators in Canada.
- Realized CAD$3 million with a brand new eCommerce flow that allows SMEs to order their mobile phones and plans easily.
- Worked closely with the VP of small business solutions to create the annual product roadmap.
- Secured our annual budget of approximately CAD$6 million from B2B stakeholders by pitching innovative ideas.
Product Manager
Esome Advertising Technologies
- Managed the €10 million monthly advertising spend using the proprietary budget optimization tool that enabled safer budget shifts across several social media platforms.
- Built an algorithm for automated budget optimization and trained it using our in-house account managers' actions.
- Doubled the team's velocity and reduced bug count through Scrum implementation.
- Reduced bug count by close to 80%, implementing a quality assurance process for the team in collaboration with the QA engineer. Helped write the automated tests.
Project History
Mobile Phone eCommerce Flow for SMEs
Led the initiative to create an eCommerce flow for complex multivariable orders that created $3 million in incremental revenue.
I facilitated a design sprint to solve the problem of enabling small business customers to buy multiple phones and plans at once. This was challenging because of all the different phones and the options with various plans. The order matrix had to be simplified, so we created one extra step and decided to implement all other order steps by leveraging the existing infrastructure of the B2C mobile products that our team had already built.
I created a roadmap with several steps from zero to full implementation that would allow us to release parts of the project, collect data, and improve those parts as we finished the bigger project.
Even in the first iteration, we significantly increased the number of leads with a more interactive product page and an enhanced lead form.
Publishing House and Furniture Design Co-creation
Created alignment and a tangible roadmap to produce a unique collection of design furniture sold through the publishing house's online shop.
In a full-day custom workshop I designed, we explored the possibilities for co-creation. The attendees were the representatives of the two companies and influential creators, and subject matter experts. Both companies introduced their expert knowledge about their customers to confirm the assumed overlap. Then we generated goals and desired outcomes for everyone.
Based on those goals, we ideated what this co-creation could look like and concluded to create a small line of unique furniture that could make the customers' reading area cozier and create an obvious connection to the large newspaper.
Processes for a Newly Founded, In-house Digital Agency
Created a new process flow for working with external stakeholders as well as internal meetings and rituals to help with the alignment across teams.
The structure and the processes of the new department did not work as smoothly as expected. Several business consultants were hired to help with that, and I joined to run some workshops and generate faster results.
I ran several workshops with project managers and content strategists to align them and create structure, processes, and meeting agendas to help with alignment, focus, and clear responsibilities.
Liquidity Management Tool for SMEs
Built and launched the beta version of the liquidity management tool within five months, accomplishing a 25% adoption rate by the existing users of another portfolio product and a 200% user growth rate since the launch.
We launched the first version in May 2020 and rolled it out to the existing customers of a lending product. We saw a 25% feature adoption rate.
Based on the interaction analytics and recordings, we improved the experience. We created more entry points, which helped us achieve a 200% increase in user growth inside a closed group within six months. We're planning to launch the product to the general public with the validated idea.
I built the product strategy based on the company's product vision, created an outcome-based roadmap for the next 3-12 months, and led discovery efforts and delivery.
We used rapid prototyping and OKRs to move quickly in the right direction.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Forensic Engineering (in Progress)
WINGS Professional Studies—Wismar University of Applied Sciences - Remote
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Socioeconomics
University of Hamburg - Hamburg, Germany
Certifications
User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals Course
Udemy, Inc.
Train the Trainer Certificate
Otto Group
Research Interviewer Course
Helmut-Schmidt-University
Skills
Tools
Slack, Confluence, Jira, MURAL, GitHub, Balsamiq, Hotjar, Looker, Figma, InVision, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Sentry
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Product Management, Kanban, Agile, Manual Testing, Acceptance Testing, Agile Project Management, User Testing, Design Thinking, Augmented Reality (AR)
Platforms
Contentful
Industry Expertise
Civil Law
Other
Facilitation, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Coaching, Workshop Facilitation, Workshops, Design Sprints, Product Management, Team Building, Cross-functional Collaboration, User Stories, Product Development, Product Owner, Product Roadmaps, User Research, Product Strategy, Product Discovery, Product Delivery, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Competitor Analysis & Profiling, User Interviews, Interviewing, Interviews, Primary Research, Employee Training, Data Privacy, Value Proposition Design, Roadmaps, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Business Acceptance Testing, Writing & Editing, Discovery, Ideation Workshops, Leadership, Wireframing, Prototyping, Product Coach, Technical Product Management, Product Vision, eCommerce, Jobs to be Done (JTBD), Lean UX, Customer Interviews, Marketing, Sociology, Business Administration, International Marketing, Antitrust Laws, Data Analysis, Statistics, Notion, Computer Science, Python, Software Architecture, Software Development, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), C, Databases, IT Security, Product Strategy Consultant, Content Strategy, Business Advisory, Business Model Canvas, Growth Hacking, Product Marketing, Product-market Fit, Process Design, B2B, Small Business, Customer Discovery, Discovery Workshops, Story Mapping, Knowledge Sharing, Product Evangelism, Collaboration, Manual QA, UX Design, Datadog, SQL, GraphQL, APIs, Documentation, Process Documentation, Scrumban, Stakeholder Management, Salesforce API, Data Analytics, Design Collaboration, Value Proposition, Outcome-driven Innovation (ODI), Cross-functional Team Leadership, Line Management, Engineering Management, Project Management, Market Research, User Validation, User Experience (UX), Mentorship & Coaching, Executive Coaching, Communication, Miro, Apache Kafka, Unreal Engine, Amplitude, Analytics, Virtual Reality (VR)
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